Monday, October 06, 2008

Yogurt Envy

I'm so jealous! Blog reader Kadri from Estonia read my recent soy-free vegan yogurt review and pointed out that they make Oat Yogurt in Finland! How cool is that?

Kadri writes:

"My favourite non-dairy yoghurt has to be YoSa. It's oat-based and flavoured with real fruits and berries.

"It's absolutely wonderful - their organic bluberry-banana YoSa and plum YoSa are incredlibly good as well. I'm not sure whether one can get it in USA, but if you can, give it a go. I'm sure you'll love it, too."

17 comments:

It really is good. It's hard sometimes to find vegan food in here (I live in Finland) but that is one good thing what they do in here. If the post would be faster I would be happy to send some example to you just to thank you about this blog.

I lived in Latvia for three years, and Yosa was an expensive staple in my diet- although, I will say it took some getting used to. I'm not vegan (but lactose intolerant) so I was trying to cut the dairy out of my diet when I first tried it, but still very used to the taste of dairy yogurt. Very different. Once I stopped comparing though, and just appreciated Yosa for what it was, I LOVED EM! They are deeelish.

Is it really Vegan? The website finfood.fi says, "Yosa is a milk-free snack product containing milk acid and bifido bacteria." Where do they get "milk acid" from? The full link is: http://www.finfood.fi/finfood/finnfoo1.nsf/154b9be36a0177ddc225718800384f71/62ab821cfdbeff6cc2257229002d7a66?OpenDocument

As mentioned here before we have them in Sweden too, but they are... discusting. The colour of dish water and the flavour of, I really don´t know. Not fruit anyway. And certainly not youghurt. I´ve tried all the flavours a couple of times, but given up. But I do say jippie! to the fact that we now can get both strawberry and blueberry soygurt: rich, smooth and creamy. And ceartinly not grey...

Tried Yosa yoghurt for the first time today (the banana & strawberry one) - and thought it was really nice! (Someone asked above if it's really vegan - yep, it is - the yoghurt contains lactic acid bacteria (lactobacillus) and bifido bacteria - nothing to do with milk. :o)

I found your site by googling "Yosa yogurt." I googled it because I tried it for the first time today, the blueberry-banana flavor. Without a doubt, it was the worst interpretation of yogurt I have ever had. The taste was chalky and the consistency was like loose jell-o. It is not good at all. I definitely prefer All-pro soy yogurt to this oat stuff.